Word: stung
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...Stung by this indictment, automakers sputtered that their critics in Commons were "ill-informed." They had their own troubles: 1) high steel prices, 2) huge purchase taxes and operating-license fees based on horsepower ratings, 3) too many labor disputes...
...railroads were stung into action. The Pennsylvania and New York Central, worried about Young and air competition, grudgingly admitted that they are working out plans with a dozen western lines for through service between New York and the West Coast...
Buzz-Bomb. In Kingston, Jamaica, when E. M. Mamby yawned, a wasp zoomed down his throat, stung a tonsil...
Last week the exhibition was so shabby that an angry crowd showered bulls and bullfighters with bottles and pillows. Stung into closer scrutiny, the fight judges noted fresh blood on one bull even as he "charged" into the ring. Investigation revealed that handlers of the cowardly toreros had softened up the bull by stabbing it in the kidneys. Set down with a $230 fine were Bullfighters Paquito Gorraez and El Soldado Segundo. In Spain they would have been hustled to the calaboose...
...kind words alone were not enough for Herbert Lehman, surveying Europe and weighing its relief needs against UNRRA's means to meet them. Normally too easygoing for his own and UNRRA's good, he had been stung by widespread criticism of his giant relief agency. In defense of UNRRA, he turned to the attack...